Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute

Cognitive and motor impairments are common after a variety of brain diseases and insults and are a source of persistent disability in many individuals. Such disabilities result in loss of independence, substantial economic costs, and emotional burden to those affected and their caregivers.

 Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute is devoted to improving the lives of individuals with neurological disabilities through research. Institute scientists conduct grant-sponsored research on theoretical models of language, action, and motor impairments; advanced neurophysiological techniques of structure-function brain mapping; and naturalistic functional assessment. MRRI supports translation of research advances into rigorous clinical assessment tools, and a range of effective treatments including pharmacologic and experience-based treatments and assistive technology.

 

  

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5/4/2012 - New article about functional and thematic semantic deficits following left hemisphere stroke by Solene Kalenine, Dan Mirman, and Laurel Buxbaum published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 4/25/2012 - Aphasia Center wins Inglis Foundation Award for Continuing Excellence. 4/20/2012 - New article about interference between functional and structural object-related actions in patients with ideomotor apraxia by Steve Jax and Laurel Buxbaum published in Journal of Neuropsychology. 4/20/2012 - Dr. Tessa Hart will join a national group of TBI experts to prepare a report to the US Congress on the efficacy and effectiveness of TBI rehabilitation. 4/4/2012 - Erin Vasudevan presented a talk, "Learning about motor learning: Neurophysiologic and rehabilitation insights from split-belt adaptation" to the Drexel Univ. Dept. of Neurobiology & Anatomy. 4/3/2012 - Laurel Buxbaum presented a talk, "Cognitive and neuroanatomical substrates of action events" at the 19th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting. 3/31-4/3/2012 - Kalenine, Chen, Middleton, and Lee each presented posters at the 19th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting. 4/3/2012 - John Whyte awarded the Kessler Foundation’s Joel A. DeLisa, MD Award for Excellence in Research and Education in the Field of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 3/26/2012 - New article about the time course of activation of thematic and functional knowledge in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 3/5/2012 - New article about the activation of different types of action information during object identification in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 3/1/2012 - New article by John Whyte and colleagues on a placebo-controlled trial of amantadine for severe traumatic brain injury published in the New England Journal of Medicine. more news ...........